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    Oil City is the largest city in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the...
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    1805. The county is part of the Northwest Pennsylvania region of the state. Venango County comprises the Oil City, PA micropolitan statistical area. It is...
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  • County, Pennsylvania, small community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania Oil City, Pennsylvania, city in Venango County, Pennsylvania Oil City, Texas, community...
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    The oil rush in America started in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there in 1859. Titusville and...
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    The Oil City Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge is an American out of service truss bridge that carries the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (WNY&P)...
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  • Wamsutta Oil Refinery was established around 1861 in McClintocksville in Venango County near Oil City, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was the first...
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  • The Oil City Oilers was a minor league baseball team located in Oil City, Pennsylvania between 1940 and 1951. The team played in the Pennsylvania State...
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  • bridge connecting the North Side and South Side neighborhoods of Oil City, Pennsylvania. Built in 1990, the bridge was one of several similar structures...
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    animals and humans. In the late 1850s, the Seneca Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent Col. Edwin L. Drake to start drilling...
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  • Also see Oil City, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Oil City is an unincorporated community in east-central Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States...
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    or Pithole City, is a ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Oil Creek State Park...
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    Oil City Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1914, and consists of a two-story...
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    Karns City is a borough that is located in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 209 at the time of the 2010 census. In December...
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    historic district that is located in Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. Situated directly north of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District...
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    historic, American post office building that is located in Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places...
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    Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil is a type of sweet crude oil (sweet crude oil), found primarily in the Appalachian basin in the Marcellus Formation in the...
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    There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia...
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  • Murder of Shauna Howe (category Oil City, Pennsylvania)
    (July 11, 1981 – October 27, 1992) was an 11-year-old girl from Oil City, Pennsylvania, who was raped and murdered on October 27, 1992. Howe's kidnapping...
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    Barrel (unit) (redirect from Barrel of oil)
    whisky barrel. The Weekly Register, an Oil City, Pennsylvania newspaper, stated on August 31, 1866 that "the oil producers have issued the following circular":...
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    as a city in 1837 and emerged as a wild oil boomtown in the Pennsylvania oil rush in the late 19th century. The area's Pennsylvania Grade crude oil has...
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  • Veterans Memorial Bridge (Oil City, Pennsylvania) Veterans Memorial Bridge (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), to Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge...
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    Ben Koyack (category People from Oil City, Pennsylvania)
    played college football at Notre Dame. Koyack attended Oil City High School in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He played football and baseball. In football, he played...
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  • Venango County, Pennsylvania, a public airport Venango Catholic High School, a private, Roman Catholic high school in Oil City, Pennsylvania Venango Formation...
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    referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population...
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  • The Oil City Cubs were a minor league baseball team based in Oil City, Pennsylvania. From 1906 to 1908, Oil City teams played as members of the Class D...
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    Pennzoil (category Defunct oil companies of the United States)
    Penn Oil Company", an oil business started in Oil City, Pennsylvania by Michael Late Benedum and Joe Trees in May 1889 as a unit of Standard Oil. It became...
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  • Frank William Gay (category Businesspeople from Salt Lake City)
    died in Kingwood, Texas in 2007. "Business Briefs". The Oil City Derrick. Oil City, Pennsylvania. April 11, 1963. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com. Barlett, Donald...
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    Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. Oil Creek has a drainage area of 319 square miles (830 km2) and joins the Allegheny at Oil City. Attractions...
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    The Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was added...
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    County seat ^ -- Consolidated city-county List of cities in Pennsylvania List of counties in Pennsylvania List of Pennsylvania Municipalities and Counties...
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